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Slave Free Seas (SFS) join the HRAS Initiative

It is with great pleasure that the HRAS Initiative can announce the engagement of Slave Free Seas as a HRAS ‘Supporting Entity’ and future collaborative partner for the forthcoming HRAS ‘Slavery at Sea’ work area.

“Throughout the world there are many fishing fleets that have highly exploitative, slave-like conditions. Up until now, very little has been done to address these conditions anywhere.”
– Matthew Friedman, UNIAP

ABOUT SLAVE FREE SEAS
Slave Free Seas is a team of the world’s foremost experts on modern slavery, including international lawyers specialising in human rights and maritime law, world-leading academics, and advocates from the private sector. Slave Free Seas has the expertise and global legal resources to implement jurisdiction-specific strategies to identify tainted supply chains; promote accountability and ensure that victims are provided remedies for the harms committed against them. Slave Free Seas began with the ongoing transformation of the New Zealand fishing industry. Our involvement has included legal advocacy and prosecution, looking after crew welfare, advocacy for legislative change, awareness raising, and research. Our current focus is the development, in partnership with LexisNexis and other groups, of a global legal toolbox that can be used by groups in any jurisdiction to achieve justice for victims of human trafficking for forced labour at sea. Our purposes are to end the impunity of those who are exploiting seafarers and secure justice for victims of slavery and forced labour at sea.